This will not come as a surprise, but I feel most productive in the mornings when I am rested and caffeinated. I work full time and find that I can hunker down and power through my work all day, but when 3:00 p.m. rolls around, I do begin to feel tired. When I was in my fifties, and thought I was old, I had a saying for my days off, “If its not done by 3:00, it isn’t getting done.”
Sometimes I feel slightly unsettled by how tired I have become since passing my 65th birthday. By the time I get off work, run an errand, come home and cook dinner, I am done for the day. I believe retirement will be good for me because I can use those hours during the day to accomplish the things I have been putting off.